“Hand-ripped”? Huh? They’re called pulled noodles. Lamian. It’s a sticky wad of flour and water pulled and folded in half over and over until it makes noodle shapes. Then the ends are cut and they’re dropped into boiling water. Even when they are bursting with freshness they’re not that great. It’s just a belly-filling wad of flour with some bits of vegetables and maybe a sprinkling of meat. The nutritional value of concrete.

Yes, this. When they realize that factual, opposing takes will not be censored and in fact get upvoted, they’ll leave in disgust. It’s not about having discussions, it’s about everything you read proving that you’re right and those other people are not just wrong, but so wrong that they have to be deleted to avoid the wrongness spreading to others of lesser intellect who might be fooled. It’s all about emotions for them.

That whole Mastodon thing just disappeared after the brief window after Musk bought Twitter. People said they were leaving and disappeared without a trace. I figured I’d start seeing links to Mastodon on various social media sites, and it just hasn’t happened. As far as I know, they’re still there, happy to talk to each other without being bothered by chuds.

This article is much like what decentralized propaganda systems do. They don’t write the propaganda themselves, but they write an article that provides a framework about how to write about the issue. Important points are emphasized for repetition: these marks are fringe, Ukraine is against them but is in a corner and can’t refuse their help, it’s a messy history and that’s all that need be said about it so don’t harp on it, anyone who broadcasts the nazi shit is a Russian shill, and Ukraine’s government is the worst offender by posting nazi photos on their official social media (subtext: don’t YOU do this either).

Interesting thread that confirms what other sources have said: the materials science is mainly what they’re after, they want to be able to create these craft because they are war-winning technologies. https://imgur.com/a/NXjWQaN

They did! https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/colares.htm#events

This one is Zimbabwe https://imgur.com/gallery/yALWO9S

BTW this account is written by a woman

Source?

Source to the claim it’s a creative writing thread

They’re what medieval miners imagined were making all those weird noises underground. For whatever reason, mines emit all sorts of sounds and you can’t tell what’s making them or where they’re coming from. I’ve heard some tapes from down there and it’s creepy AF.

Oh, Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, that one.

The secret to understanding the Gygaxian mode of thought is not the Wild West. It’s the Wild East. Used to be, western culture’s frontier was in the east, in the marches, basically around modern-day Poland and Lithuania and so. The “Drang Nach Osten”, the drive to the east, was the original civilizing crusade. They would build military forts, attract settlers, make productive farms out of wildland, and so on. Out of the east came civilization’s greatest threats: Atilla the Hun, Ghengis Khan, and a thousand other, forgotten invasions. If civilization could expand far enough, it could eliminate these threats by occupying their land. Gygax the medievalist was obviously familiar with these tropes (which, to his credit, are still to this day unknown to most Americans - but Europeans know them innately).

Joke was on the Europeans, though. Asia extended further east than anyone ever thought possible. The North American continent, however, was not so large and the madlads actually did it.